Sentence examples similar to I would relent from inspiring English sources

They would beg and plead to keep their cellphones on silent mode in their pockets, and I'd relent, only to see them hunched over and texting madly in their laps, while glancing up at me every once and a while to show that they were pretending to listen.

When I asked whether he would relent on the Palestinian territories, as de Gaulle had on Algeria, his reply was unequivocal: There was no new Sharon.

I naively thought that once I expressed how excruciating that night had been for me, the family would relent.

In a few years, I'd know what winning felt like, when my body would relent and allow me to manipulate my breath, turn my fingertips blue and slow down my heartbeat so that it was random and unpredictable, the way everything else in life felt.

"I would vacillate between the naive assumption that when Joe saw my smiling face perhaps he would relent and the idea that given enough time and obsessiveness, it didn't matter if he spoke to me," Mr. Cramer said.

For a few small bills they would relent.

It was, in effect, a polite ultimatum: he would relent or she would leave.

Even so, Mr. Hall held out hope that the judge would relent.

But still there was no sign that the opposition would relent.

But the mayor ultimately rejected the plan, wagering that the council members would relent.

"They have been saying that OPEC would relent for months," Mr. Schumer said.